International security

FEAR AND LOATHING IN CHINA

A growing number of observers believe that relations between the United States and China have taken a fundamental turn for the worse.  They are not so much worried about the cumulative effects of recurring flashpoints such as arms sales to Taiwan, visits by the Dalai Lama, and territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Instead, they fear that more structural, underlying drivers — the declining gap in overall power between the two countries,